In simple words, homes without grandparents seem empty and monotonous. Therefore, a beautiful smile in home is our grandparents. Grandparent’s love is purely unconditional and unmatched that one can’t express it in real words. It has neither limit the boundary of extension nor any rule set for making it more dignified. Love of any kind manifests outpouring of feelings that describe values and bonding with someone. A father and a mother as parents share an equal amount of love for their children because of having blood relations with them. Similarly, grandparents love their grandchildren unconditionally and pray for their good health and prosperity. It is a pure love that does not need any cause to initiate the process. This strong bonding explicitly depicts a sign of fortunes which are reflected on faces having splendid spectrum. No one can stop or to taint this natural bonding as it has been growing up in fragranced veins and laps for giving comfort and care. Grandparents’ love is the only love in this universe that needs no explanation for justifying its degree of amount. None of us could measure the fathom of it. This is so fruitful and matchless in every aspect. It has such beautiful lenses fitted inside that reflect true colors of bonding. Grandparent’s love is truly an epitome for their grandchildren. It starts evolving when their sons and daughters are having children. It is bound to happen that love for grandchildren is so irresistible laden with hard feelings and attachment. Grandparents get so excited and cheerful when their grandchildren started crawling and walking. Stages of development going on and grandparent’s love get more intensified taking this bond on a new path for flourishing. A storm of happiness marks the day with colorful impressions when grandchildren start talking their parents by calling Abbu, mumma, Dada, Dadi. Grandparent’s positive expression at the moment is only that it is just a blessing came from divine. Overwhelming of atmosphere that spreads across families, relatives and filling up the hearts with spirit and charm. Grandparents can only explain the meaning of this unconditional bond with their grandchildren and it is true that children also love them very much when they grow old. Bonding of such type gives new hopes to families and discovers the qualities of love for peace and pleasures. Grandchildren recognize their grandparents well and getting them inclined that they had given them a lot of love and care at some stages. It further develops a sense of closeness and deep affection that is hard to break. It is not any tale coming to hear us from our ancestors but it is true that grandparents love their grandchildren undoubtedly having much stronger bond fastened with divinely ropes. They always pray for their health and successful life. It is usually seen on their lips by giving blessings to their grandchildren like; May Allah gives you a high position and more respect.
Grandparents are indeed blessings in our homes and their love and sympathetic feelings are equal for the entire family. Homes get flourished by their presence. They relax our mind by sharing past experiences and events of Kashmir history.
I shall cite this example. MY Grandmother is above 80 years old. She is still in good health and has good understanding and experiences over things. She usually visits our house to see our faces as we are just a stone’s throw to maternal uncle’s house. We all feel on cloud nine when we see her in mornings as she is our blessing. We also go to meet her in evening for seeing her face. She prays for our success and prosperity in life. We also make her happy by telling so many things just to make her relax. Her nature of talking is so wonderful that we can’t imagine at this age. We always see her in happy mode and she keeps hide some essential food items for us like; sweats, fruits mostly apples, pears etc;. We all cousin brothers love to sit with her making comfortably feel and happy. She has an infinite affection with us that we can’t express in our own words. She searches for us when we are outside the house went for some work. It is her love that triggers her inner feelings making her uncomfortable now and then. She gets so happy while seeing us very close and praying for us by putting right hand on head. Alhamdulillah! My maternal uncle and his wife give a lot time by spending hours with her. My mother also visits her daily to see her face and health. I have a cousin brother, Shahid Rashid who makes her so happy by telling her some tidbits all time for making her laugh. She bursts out laughing while listening to his funny words and expressions. All our relatives come to see for asking her health. It is high time for us to take blessings from her and to serve everything so that she feels more comfortable. Grandparents are indeed blessings in our homes and their love and sympathetic feelings are equal for the entire family. Homes get flourished by their presence. They relax our mind by sharing past experiences and events of Kashmir history. We can receive all kinds of information from them in terms of social, economic and cultural life in the past. One should not miss the moments to learn something new in life. It is so elegant and adorable time while we listen to their delicate words filled with utmost innocence. Their soothing voices are just like panacea which relieves us from anxiety and sadness. We should respect and serve them more in old ages as much as we can. They should not feel loneliness and overburden in homes as they have no one to serve. They feel so delighted when we treat them with good gestures. A smiling gesture always appears to be a ravishing diamond.
(The author is a teacher. The views, opinions, facts, assumptions, presumptions and conclusions expressed in this article are those of the author and aren’t necessarily in accord with the views of “Kashmir Horizon”.)
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